Join Date Jan 1970

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I don't want to appear stupid :confused: but have a couple of questions on members join dates.

This is an online forum isn't it?

The IBM XT PC came in sometime around 1983 and people used Bulletin Boards for functions like this AULRO site.

The internet didn't exist till the early 1990's or become popular till the mid to late 1990's.

How come some people have join dates that pre-date any of these dates? (Like Jan 1970)

[scrambler]

Noticed that myself Lotz-a, and figured that either (1) they had a big club recruitment ahead of my birth in 1971 or (2) this was a feature added to the program sometime after the forumk started and so earlier members all got a default setting.

Steve

[FenianEel]

In January 1970, a group of Land Rover enthusiasts got together to form theis forum.
Yes it was before the advent of the home PC or internet.
We used to meet correspond via post.
A topic would be posted to incisor and copies sent to each other members address. They would then respond to each member and incisor and so on.
Mail was heavily censored and regualated in those days, so the content was pretty lame & the then PMG (aus post) were the original moderators.
Quite amazing really. ;)


It's also a total crock of sh*t. :twisted:
The jan 1970 date happened when the forum got changed to a new format earlier in the year!

[Phoenix]

The jan 1970 date happened when the forum got changed to a new format earlier in the year!

exactly ;)

[Outlaw]

But we could argue that the internet unofficially went live in 1969

The USSR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR)'s launch of Sputnik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik) spurred the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA)) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Technology_Office) (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi_Automatic_Ground_Environment) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider) was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_%28scientist%29) to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran) who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching) (as opposed to Circuit switching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_switching)) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA) on October 29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_29), 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET), the "eve" network of today's Internet

[incisor]

the date is the default date for anything unix.

the import of the old database to this new software went west in 2 fields, the passwds and the dates joined, as they were in totally diferent formats, and i had very limited time to get it back online.

why 1/1/1970 i hear you ask?

1/1/1970 is 0 (epoch) in unix (posix) date format, which is represented as the number of seconds since then. In 2038 unix will have a rollover problem.... hope they are working on it :P

more info for the curious is available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

[FenianEel]

the date is the default date for anything unix.

the import of the old database to this new software went west in 2 fields, the passwds and the dates joined, as they were in totally diferent formats, and i had very limited time to get it back online.

why 1/1/1970 i hear you ask?

1/1/1970 is 0 (epoch) in unix (posix) date format, which is represented as the number of seconds since then. In 2038 unix will have a rollover problem.... hope they are working on it :P

more info for the curious is available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Yeah, maybe so - but I think my fairytale was more amusing:D

[incisor]

your always more amusing than me.........

[FenianEel]

your always more amusing than me.........

hehe:D

informative no, amusing - i do my best:D

[Bushie]

At least our problems are not as bad as the ancients.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/04/584.jpg


Martyn

[Landy Smurf]

At least our problems are not as bad as the ancients.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/04/584.jpg


Martyn
thats a good one

[The ho har's]

thats a good one

bored again are we Tony:cool:

I see I will have to keep a very close eye on you...























to see what other great threads you pull up:D


keep the good work;)


Mrs hh:angel:

[Landy Smurf]

yes quite no one know when or where ill strike next not even me

[George130]

The magic null date.
I have to deal with 31/12/1899 at work.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

thats fairly ancient,,,

and the major significance is???










Inc's Birthday? :angel::wasntme: